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#119 Goosebump-inducing Waves of Knowingness - Jonny Miller on grief, friendship, living abroad, founding a company, remote work, Rolf Potts, David Whyte, poetry, and finding work that matters.

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

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How Does the Breath Work?

Our nervous system has three branches there's the sympathetic that most people have heard of and then there's two branches in the power sympathetic one is called ventral one is called dorsal. Learning to recognize what state you're in can be really helpful so if someone's stuck in sympathetic they might be angry, anxious or depressed. There are certain tools say using the breath that can help you to kind of downshift into a place of safety.

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